GoDigital Media Group

GoDigital Media Group
Private
Industry
  • Entertainment
  • Digital Media Technologies
Founded Santa Monica, California (2005)
Founders
Key people
  • Michael Peterson
  • Barry Daffurn
  • Manfred Van Ursel
  • Steve Scott
Number of employees
60
Parent GoDigital Media Group
Subsidiaries
  • AdShare
  • Cinq Music
  • ContentBridge
  • GoDigital
  • Media Aggregators
Website www.godigitalmg.com
Footnotes / references
233 Wilshire Santa Monica, CA 90401 United States

GoDigital Media Group (GDMG) is an entertainment industry related holding company. GDMG retains varying levels of interest in firms that have been incubated from concept, funded in early stages, merged or absorbed through acquisition. Founded in 2005, GDMG specializes in digital-media content-management, delivery and the monetization of music, movie, television and theatrical assets.[1]

Background

GoDigital Media Group's (GDMG) core business originated as GoDigital Music Group, a music distributor; GoDigital Records, a record label;[2][3] and Symbolic Entertainment, a film studio.[4]

In a 2008 reorganization, the firm created a subsidiary, under the shortened name GoDigital, which specializes in digital and video on demand movie distribution.[5] GoDigital's CEO Jason Peterson headed an in-house software development effort for digital supply-chain and rights management that became ContentBridge. Peterson assumed the position of CEO for ContentBridge Systems upon incorporation in 2010, and Mulvey advanced from President to CEO at GoDigital.[6] GDMG's label was subsequent rebranded Cinq Music specializing in music distribution and rights management for recording artists.

GoDigital merged with Variance Films in January 2014, forming a new distribution entity, Amplify. GoDigital has distribution deals with YouTube, Netflix, Hulu, Amazon and iTunes.[7] Video on demand partners include Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Verizon FiOS.[7]

Co-founder and CEO Jason Peterson is a director/producer.[4][8] Co-founder Logan Mulvey serves on the Board of Directors for the Entrepreneurs' Organization and board of advisors of the San Diego Film Festival.[9] Co-founder Dave Lindsay served as GoDigital Media Group's CTO.

Services

AdShare is a social media (primarily YouTube content) monetization service for entertainment industry rights-holders.[10]

ContentBridge (Content Bridge LLC) is a supply chain management (SCM), digital rights management (DRM), and encoding software provider for the entertainment industry.[11] Content Bridge was awarded the 2014 Industry Leadership Digital Award (Digi Award) in recognition of its unique software support for the EMA, SMPTE Interoperable Master Package (IMP), CableLabs and UltraViolet digital supply chain standards.[12][13]

Year Category Institution or publication Result Notes Citation
2014 Industry Leadership ContentBridge Won EMA Digital Award (Digi Award) [12][13]

References

  1. Kay, Jeremy (30 August 2012). "Logan Mulvey, GoDigital". Screendaily. Archived from the original on 27 September 2014. Retrieved 27 September 2014. The CEO of digital distributor GoDigital talks to Screen about striking deals with film-makers to make the fast-evolving online space pay.
  2. "CORRECTING and REPLACING GoDigital Licenses Content to Qtrax; Next Generation Record Label Endorses Qtrax for Ad-Supported P2P Digital Distribution". BusinessWire - Brilliant Technologies Corporation. 19 September 2006. Retrieved 27 September 2014.
  3. Kay, Jeremy (30 August 2012). "Logan Mulvey, GoDigital". Screen Daily. Retrieved 9 December 2014.
  4. 1 2 "Symbolic Entertainment". BackStage.com. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 15 July 2014.
  5. Kung, Michelle (11 January 2012). "GoDigital Ramps Up Digital Distribution Plans". The Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on 9 December 2014. Retrieved 22 April 2013.
  6. "GoDigital Media Group Makes Changes on Top; Promotes Logan Mulvey to President" (Press release). Reuters. 8 September 2010. Retrieved 15 July 2014.
  7. 1 2 Gruenwedel, Erik (14 April 2011). "Indie Distributor Inks YouTube Streaming Deal". Home Media Magazine. Archived from the original on 10 December 2014. Retrieved 10 December 2014. Santa Monica, Calif.-based GoDigital said it would supply about 2,000 hours of movies and TV programming to YouTube. The distributor has similar deals with Netflix, Hulu, Amazon and iTunes, in addition to VOD agreements with Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Verizon FiOS.
  8. "Digital Hollywood Conference Schedule". DigitalHollywood.com. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 15 July 2014.
  9. "Mentors: Digital Media". SXSW Schedule. SXSW Inc. Retrieved 22 April 2013.
  10. Huang, Chun-Ting (6 April 2014). "MCL and AdShare Developed Fast Audio Matching Technology". USC. Archived from the original on 26 September 2014. Retrieved 26 September 2014. The joint R&D team has continuously worked on system performance optimization to meet real-time processing requirements. The team also keeps developing a more advanced technique that handles sounds distorted by other methods such as pitch shifts, white noise, and instrument swaps.
  11. Rachel Abrams (10 March 2011). "Opportunity knocks for indie producers". Variety. Archived from the original on 24 June 2014. Retrieved 24 June 2014. “The producer should get smart and work with the best person in physical, the best person in theatrical and the best person in digital,” said Jason Peterson, CEO of ContentBridge, a company that provides tools for content-centric businesses to internally manage their work and distribute it to global partners
  12. 1 2 Latchem, John (9 October 2014). "'Breaking Bad,' Amazon, Content Bridge, Disney Among EMA Digital Honorees". Home Media Magazine. Archived from the original on 10 October 2014. Retrieved 10 October 2014. The Entertainment Merchants Association Oct. 8 presented its “Digi” Awards for outstanding achievement in digital entertainment content, retailing, leadership and innovation to Sony Pictures' “Breaking Bad,” Amazon, Content Bridge and Disney. The awards were presented at EMA’s Digital Media Pipeline at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles.
  13. 1 2 Staff (10 October 2014). "EMA Hands Out Digi Awards to 'Breaking Bad,' Amazon, and More". GamePolitics.com. Archived from the original on 10 October 2014. Retrieved 10 October 2014.

External links

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 9/15/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.